Peace is the Only Way to Peace
"Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people" Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Articles
Catholic Social Teaching finds Church Leadership Lacking - Bishop Kevin Dowling CSR
Immigration: The War at Home - Elena Segura
Just Peacemaking - Glen Stassen
What do Empires Do - Michael Parenti
Do Your Parish Justice - Jack Jezreel
BLOGS
Trouble on the Border: Arizona and Michigan
Short Films
The Impact of U.S. Drone Attacks
It's time now for the
Knight's of Columbus
to Disarm..
"The Lord has entrusted the church a mission to heal and to reveal the healing power of peace and nonviolence, as an integral part of her mission for salvation and wholeness...The peace mission concerns the whole Church, the people of God and its pastors. What is most needed on all sides is concrete prophetic realization..."
Is the "Just War"
Obsolete?
"I think the Vatican is actually moving ahead of the US church in terms of just war theory. I see an evolution in social doctrine here reflecting the terrible reality of modern warfare..."
What could be done:
Influencing U.S. Policy.....
Rediscovering Gospel Non-violence.
"The church should be a Prophetic Voice proclaiming the nonviolent Gospel to US policy makers, and to its own members....."
Peace Among the Peoples
"An Ecumenical Peace Conference on Overcoming the Spirit, Logic and Practice of Violence
Hosted July 28-31, 2010 by Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana, USA..."
Militarizing Space
America's Grand Strategy"On January 3, 2001, the UN General Assembly's Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space Resolution A/555/32 said:....."
Isreali Mother Addresses European Parliament
"Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is the mother of Smadar Elhanan, 13 years old when killed by a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in September 1997. Below is Nurit's speech made on International Women's Day in Strasborg....."